Illustration and photo-reconstruction of Arsinoitherium an extinct genus of paenungulate mammal related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extin
Illustration and photo-reconstruction of Arsinoitherium an extinct genus of paenungulate mammal related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extinct desmostylians, as well as to other extinct species were rhinoceros-like herbivores that lived during the late Eocene and the early Oligocene of Northern Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago. They lived in areas of tropical rainforest and at the margin of mangrove swamps. A newly discovered species, Arsinoitherium giganteum, lived in Ethiopia about 27 million years ago. When alive, it would have superficially resembled a rhinoceros, and have been about metres tall at the shoulders, 3 metres long and weighed over tonnes. The most noticeable feature of Arsinoitherium was a pair of enormous knife-like horns with cores of solid bone that projected from above the nose, and a second pair of tiny, knob-like horns on top of the head, immediately behind the larger horns.
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